So I have an (somewhat old) cooker tree here. I figure I will rsync it
up/down to a 7.2 final for my product boxes. I did a small experiment to
see just how brutal the transfer was going to be. I chose a file on my
cooker tree and the 7.2 final tree that "appeared" the same. They were
not in reality though. Take for example this file from my cooker tree
before rsyncing the file:
# ls -l Mandrake/RPMS/zsh-doc-3.1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 599913 Sep 22 11:54
Mandrake/RPMS/zsh-doc-3.1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
# sum Mandrake/RPMS/zsh-doc-3.1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
13516 586
Then I rsynced the file:
# cd Mandrake/RPMS
# rsync -a
rsync://rsync.proxad.net/mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/zsh-doc-3.1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm .
And it transferred the whole file. It is actually different even though
the name/version/revision did not change.
# ls -l Mandrake/RPMS/zsh-doc-3.1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 600246 Oct 6 05:10
Mandrake/RPMS/zsh-doc-3.1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
# sum Mandrake/RPMS/zsh-doc-3.1.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
02756 587
Why is this?
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
